May 7th, 2012
A full day workshop by a nationally known language educator can be inspiring on a personal level but unproductive on a professional level simply because the presenter brings forward so many ideas that have proved successful in his or her long career. A member of the audience is likely to fall back upon the tried
April 29th, 2012
A series of blog entries inviting readers to contribute to and comment on Wordworks’ second edition What was your motivation for writing Wordworks? Boredom. Boredom from trying to teach grammar from sentences such as Summer is my favorite season. Please leave a forwarding address with the postman. Do you know who invented the ironing board? Those sentences
April 27th, 2012
Teachers and students are always looking for magical helpers to make learning more entertaining and time spent more productive. Why not consider enlisting “little people” in the interest of pronoun mastery? Little people allow everyone to adopt the same working assumptions and the same point of view. Learning about the little people from an entry
February 28th, 2012
TACTICS is an acronym attached to some language texts from Wayside Publishing. It stands for Through Active Conversation To Individual Communication Skills. Let me keep the emphasis on the word “active.” Active students are the ones doing the learning in class and TACTICS books support activities for students, usually in pairs. The goal of a
February 21st, 2012
Who can forget the experience of reading certain short stories for the first time: the sense of foreboding that gradually builds throughout “The Lottery” until it explodes in the horrifying climax; the shocking twist that rocks the reader at the end of “An Occurrence at Owl Cree Bridge”; the delicious irony that wraps “The Gift
February 21st, 2012
Twenty-nine years ago when Peter and I first started work on Little Worlds, neither of us had been teaching for very long, and we didn’t know much. We did, however, know that we loved stories and that we wanted to give our students stories worth loving. Today I am a teacher with over 30 years
February 14th, 2012
Our major changes In its second edition Azulejo has been completely revamped, revised, and rewritten. Attentive to all of the curriculum changes laid out by the College Board, we have also attempted to incorporate the comments and suggestions of seasoned AP Spanish Literature teachers. With these guidelines in mind we introduce the following major changes:
February 14th, 2012
Desperation can be a gift. You are looking for ideas about language teaching. After decades of language teaching I have a few ideas to share. TACTICS is an acronym attached to some language texts from Wayside Publishing. It stands for Through Active Conversation To Individual Communication Skills. Let me put the emphasis on the word
February 14th, 2012
The APprenons team has been busy writing and researching to include the latest updates from the francophone world and the College Board. This experience, thus far, has been a true 21st century project in that we’ve written the entire manuscript using collaborative web tools. We all live in different parts of the country, and we were not able
February 6th, 2012
Can stress be good for kids? The upcoming new edition of How to Study recognizes good stress in today’s learning environment. Good stress includes getting oneself pumped up for an important game – or for a crucial test, for example. But it’s the bad stress that has destructive effects on students’ academic progress.
